Gonzalo Ayuso throws a few snippets of code in the blog posts title “Handling Amazon SNS messages with PHP, Lumen and CloudWatch“, which shows how to work with Amazon SNS (Simple Notifications Service) and Amazon CloudWatch (cloud and network monitoring solution) from PHP. The examples are based on the Lumen micro-framework, which is basically a stripped down Laravel.
Category: Web work
These days, most of my work is very related to the online world. Building web sites, reviewing web applications, integrating with web services, coordinating people who are far away from each other, etc. Whenever I find a new tool or service or an innovative, interesting idea about working online, I share it in this category.
Awesome list of Important Podcasts for software engineers
Awesome podcasts is a curated list of podcasts for software engineers. The list includes a whole lot of sections – one for each programming language out there, generic software engineering, tools, etc.
Also, have a look at this blog post I did a while back.
atoum – modern, simple and intuitive PHP unit testing framework
With all the hype around the quality assurance and testing tools for PHP, I wonder how did I miss atoum. Atoum is a modern, simple and intuitive unit testing framework for PHP. From a quick look around, it seems to be a lot simpler than PHPUnit and I definitely need to find some time to give it a go.
Also, here’s a blog post that describes how Automattic moved from PHPUnit to atoum, which makes a lot of sense (you know what I’m talking about if you ever tried to write PHPUnit tests for WordPress projects).
Threadable – a PHP library for parallel execution
Threadable is a PHP library that helps with building applications that need to run multiple threads in parallel. It relies on posix and pcntl PHP extensions and does all the heavy lifting of process control. I find this very useful, as not many PHP developers are familiar with process management.
SystemDaemon – Simple base for system daemons in PHP
SystemDaemon is a library that helps with writing system daemons and services in PHP. PHP is not my personal favorite language for such tasks, but there is often a need, despite the preference. Some examples are:
- scheduled tasks (cron jobs) that need to execute more often than once per minute
- message queue workers
- real-time synchronization scripts